Summary Of Bee's Mirror By Henry Pollan

In Pollan’s essay humans describe themselves above all creatures including plants. In the text, he points out the language structure we use as since we “divide the world into subjects and objects, and here in the garden, as in nature generally, we humans are the subjects” (xiv). This quote describes how humans place dominance to nature and places all other creatures as our objects. We decide to help a plant thrive in its area and allow it to keep living. The way we see things is artificial selection where nature must work around the way humans live. However, another perspective is the “bee’s mirror” which Pollan proposes. This attitude suggests that plants command us to help them nourish since they can't move and psychologically have us do